PAMELA WINFREY
Skills:
Curatorial
Directorial/Team leading
Program design
Exhibition Design
Project and Program management
Budgets
Volunteer Management
Excellent personnel skills
Positions held within the Exploratorium 1979- Present
Four years as Exploratorium Explainer
Four years as Tactile Dome runner and designer.
Introduced the idea of modular walls
SITE (School in the Exploratorium) Manufactured perception kits
Senior Artist
Program Manager
Speaking of Music 1983-1992
Bubble Festival
Director
Director Exploratorium Volunteer Department
Director of PAIR (Performing Artist in Residence)
Director of the Performing Programs
Acting Director of the Arts
Curator (Not comprehensive)
West Gallery, a 16,000 sf gallery that explores humans as phenomena
The Changing Face of What is Normal
2nd Wednesdays
Chain Reaction
Self Propelled
Cabin Fever
Reconsidered Materials
Moth Light1 Degree Below Zero
The Prepared Exploratorium,
Edible Complex
Aerovox: Artists Give Voice to the Air
Shadowboxes
Exhibitions
About the Size of It
Reconsidered Materials
Liminality: Art on the Threshold
Exhibitions (Curated contributed works)
What About AIDS
Light Organ by Trimpin
Revealing Bodies
Scott Serrano
About the Size of It
Flea Circus with Maria Cardosa
Navigation
Open Systems: An Aerial Perspective on Human Navigation
Zaccho Dance
Diaspora of the Accordian and Guitar
Mathematica
Five artworks including Boundary Functions by Scott Snibbe
Frogs
Frog bridge
Frog Porch
Contributed exhibit: Frog Songs
Diving into the Gene Pool
Code Blue
Traits of Life
Tiger Skin and Portrait, Grass Artists Heather Akyroyd and Dan Harvey
Move 36 by EdwardoKac
Jarred In by Philip Ross
Reflections
Three works by Danny Rozin
SPORTS!
Seth and Noah Riskin
Listening
Talking Sticks By Nigel Helyer
Seeing
Remote by Heidi Kumao
Performances and Performance Series (Not comprehensive)
Cultural Rhythms
Japanese Ghost Story with Brenda Aoki
Where’s the One: Drumming in Thirty Countries
Vox Mundi: Exploring the human voice
West Coast Live: Art and Science at the Exploratorium
1000 Years of Indian Music Series
Science on Stage
Staged readings of new plays exploring the worlds of science and technology
Situation Abnormal: Performances You’ll Never See on Broadway
Short Plays on a Short Subject: Plays that Explore the Nano World
Speaker Swinging, Piano Mechanics by Gordon Monahan
Memory Playsa Collaboration with the Magic Theatre
Public Viewing
Large Scale Events
Protective Clothing Fashion Show
2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital and Analogue Clothing
Tinkerer’s Ball
Seeing Gallery 2002- 2009? (Not comprehensive)
Reflections
Light Walks
An Homage to Exploratorium Artist Bob Miller Works by Kit Kube, Mark Esper, Michael Brown, Michael Walsh, and Jane Aaron
Virtual Unreality
The artists in this exhibition embrace the inherently unreal nature of computer-generated environments to create landscapes and creatures that are subtly familiar, yet ultimately strange and otherworldly.
On the Edge of Falling; Aeneas Wilder
Math and the Night Sea: The Square Wave and the Round Wave
In the Land of the Lilliputian
Exploring the nanoworld through art
Turing Tables: A national premiere by Franz John. Sound design by Ed Osborn
Explores the transformation of seismological data into sound and image
Sculptural Information
Interactive artworks exploring the interface between data and sculpture, featuring works by Margaret Michel, Michael Rees, Shirley Shor, and Mary Tsiongas.
In the Land of the Lilliputian
Explored the nanoworld through art
Natural Reflections
A series of artworks using the lens of nature to explore the human condition, featuring works by BinhDanh, Claudia Hart, Vanessa Renwick, and John Slepian
Art Life
Featuring works of interactive media by Brian Knep, Golan Levin, Casey Reas, and Scott Snibbe
Cutting Edge: Artists Experiment With Glass
Five artists who work with glass in nontraditional ways: Lillian Ball, Rebecca Cummins, Leighton Pierce, Thad Povey, and Michael Rudnick
Liquid Time Series: Tokyo
Camille Utterback
Pedestrian
Shelly Eshkar and Paul Kaiser
Curator outside the Exploratorium
Lead curatorial Consultant for Creative Capital 2009
Represented the US and juriedInteractive Arts forArs Electronica 2006
Curated “Five(5)” at the Beall Center, Irvine, in celebration of their fifth anniversary 2006
Speaker/ Panelist
AAM
Alliance of Artist Communities
Cultural Connections
NATN
Exhibits
Juke Box: 99 curated songs you will never hear on the radio
Alice Through the Looking Glass, About the Size of It
Other
Produced Self Guided Arts Tour
One Tree by Natalie Jereminjenko
Klompin by Trimpin
Designed Ground Breaking Ceremony for the new Exploratorium